Slashdot Mirror


User: iosmart

iosmart's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
116
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 116

  1. I know! on London Nuke Plant Loses 30 Kilos of Plutonium · · Score: 1

    Maybe Doc took it...for his time travel DeLorean. http://www.delorean.com/

  2. Answer on VoIP for Deployed Soldiers? · · Score: 1

    To answer your question, you're going to need about 4-5kb/sec for a Vonage box on the Low Quality setting. For 20 soldiers, you would want to have 100kb/sec upload which is pretty big. I would suggest just having 2 or 3 boxes and share. You might want to hook up one box to a bad dialup connection and see how it works out. Packet8 devices use a different codec and supposedly handle low bandwidth/high latency better, but I havent seen this myself.

  3. Re:Biometrics on MS Employee Calls for No More Passwords · · Score: 1

    Actually, the thing about people remembering up to 10 digits best applies only to short term memory. It was a study done by George Miller in the 1960s. He just gave people random "chunks of information" like digits and words and tested them soon after. This can be the case if people randomly came up with a passphrase and tried to remember it. If it's something that has already entered long term memory, the game change completely. Retyping the phrase over and over will also help reinforce it on a regular basis.

  4. great on Los Alamos Missing Disks Never Existed · · Score: 1

    Does this mean that if I get into Berkeley or UCLA, it's gonna cost even more? I'm not a CA resident either...

  5. Man on Overclocking Calculators? · · Score: 1

    Tip: it's not something simple like punching a few buttons or using a pencil to cross over certain lines. Check through the whole procedure and see if you have the required supplies...don't go taking out your batteries and trying to open the calculator like I did :(

  6. Kinda interesting on Two Reviews of Microsoft AntiSpyware · · Score: 1

    Non-Microsoft companies are better than Microsoft in detecting malicious changes to Microsoft's own software (IE and Windows). Well, I suppose it could be because it's not Microsoft's fault http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/15/015239 &tid=109&tid=1 :-P

  7. Is it just me? on CRTs Still Beat Flat-Panel TVs · · Score: 2, Informative
  8. oops on Inside TechTV/G4 · · Score: 1

    I meant TechLive

  9. I dunno on Inside TechTV/G4 · · Score: 1

    I haven't been following TSS for about four years, but to me, TechTV has been going down even before this G4 stuff. For a while, they had like 12 hour blocks of TechLife. Then they filled up that space with a bunch of Robot Wars crap. Right before G4, it seemed as if that's all TechTV ever showed...after G4, the situation was slightly helped with some random gaming shows. But these G4 shows are pretty terrible anyhow, so things are still bad.

  10. I like this line on Skunkworks At Apple -- The Graphing Calculator Story · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "The secret to programming is having smart friends." hahaha

  11. Why I think the MPAA is like Hitler, maybe worse! on TorrentBits.org and SuprNova.org Go Dark · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hitler invades and remilitarizes the Rhineland on March 7, 1936. Historian Donald Kagan calls it a "Saturday surprise," because it was a weekend, and the French leaders who were at their homes would have to scramble together to come up with a response. Things were just too slow compared to if the invasion was done on a weekday. The MPAA attacks on a Sunday. How disgusting. The MPAA does it while everyone is taking their Sunday evening nap...

  12. Re:suprnova t-shirt on TorrentBits.org and SuprNova.org Go Dark · · Score: 1

    it'll be worth something someday :( if suprnova is down, all the other torrent sites are gonna fall pretty soon. suprnova seemed to have the best method of distribution. i hope the kid doesnt get in big trouble for it...

  13. Give me an insurance break on Using GPS to Track Teens · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In my opinion, if they could arrange some sort of insurance discount, the system would sell like CRAZY. I think right now it's at least $2000/year for a teen driver.

  14. Re:A moment of silence... on Adieu to Ken Jennings · · Score: 1

    hahahahhaa i happened to see that one, he was from carnegie mellon. i saw him smile when alex revealed the wager mod parent up!

  15. Re:Uh-oh.. on Coating Promises Scratch-Proof CDs, DVDs, LCDs · · Score: 1

    yeah...especially here in florida

  16. Price of media...nah on An Exhaustive 16X DVD Burner Roundup · · Score: 1

    Do you mean the price of a computer that can handle burning at 16X? Striping across 15k rpm drives is what's too expensive for me

  17. let's all just on Google Confirms Chinese Censorship Claims · · Score: 1

    blame canada! google.ca

  18. Re:slashback on Slashback: Fairness, Radioactivity, Recovery · · Score: 2, Funny

    nah, ../ dotdotslash

  19. eek on FAA Grants Sub-Orbital License to SpaceShipOne · · Score: 4, Informative

    While the highest criteria to issue a
    license is public safety, applicants
    must undergo an extensive pre-
    application process, demonstrate
    adequate financial responsibility to
    cover any potential losses, and meet
    strict environmental requirements.</I>

    this might put a lot of people outta the runnings

  20. Re:www.paypalsucks.com on eBay Fraud Vigilantes · · Score: 1

    indeed the best advice

  21. Re:first post maybe on The Smart Sensor Web · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    aw poop, first i put no subject and it stopped me and then i put "d" and it stopped me again and blah i lost my first post. and now i just tried to post again but it wasnt 2 minutes. poo poo pa-roo. qui qui quiree. cock-a-doodle-doo

  22. Re:I have a 3.2Ghz PC that I bought for home... on Intel Demos New P4 'Extreme Edition' · · Score: 1

    like the people who wear the "my computer is bigger, better, and faster than yours." shirt? yeah, i have one of those...except it was back when my 1.6 athlon-mp was crazy fast. i woulda linked to the shirt but it looks like thinkgeek has stopped selling it :-(

  23. hmm on Music Industry Compared to Movie Industry · · Score: 1

    well...can you listen to the music on the dvd if you were in your car?

  24. uh oh on Japan's Proposed 30-Year Robot Program · · Score: 1

    they're gunna take over and go "rawr!!!!" and da matrix is gunna startt!!!!

  25. plus on The Most Compatible DVD Format: DVD-R · · Score: 5, Funny

    who likes to say "dvd plus arr"?? "dvd arr" works much better! and if you say "dvd dash arr", do you also say "cd dash arr" and "cd dash arr double you"? then again no "cd plus arr" exists...